In message <CACqU3MUQQ6XQTFXhVe1Jtu4Aey3KCdkTcprD7Ojq3oUrdC8b-w_at_mail.gmail.com> , Arnaud Lacombe writes: >User do not care to understand the meaning of an option, you leave a >hole somewhere, it will be used. I'm not even speaking about security >issue here... There is a big difference between having an emergency hatch that gives you a chance to escape certain death by running across a shooting range, and on posting a sign telling people to use it as a short-cut. debugflags&16 has legitimate uses if you know exactly what kind of shitty situation you are in, and it should absolutely be in the release kernel for that reason. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sat Oct 08 2011 - 14:52:45 UTC
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